Head of Architecture, Core Products ((Singapore , India(Chennai), Malaysia)

Singapore Job Openings

Standard Chartered

October 10, 2024

Job Summary

Head of Architecture, Core & Wealth Products – is responsible for the end-to-end Architecture supporting transformations across Core Banking, and Wealth Core Product Platforms

Have a deep understanding of the Core Banking and/or Wealth domains, including Deposts, Lending, Payments, and Wealth products like Mutual Funds, Equities, Fixed Income etc
Drive API solutions for platforms across these domains
Drive solution for transformational initiatives including in Lending, Credit Cards and Wealth Products
Strengthen and adopt SCB cloud Core Banking platform
Lead the strategy, architecture and roadmap for these domains

Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to ensure that technology strategy, priorities are relevant to business strategy and objectives

Contribute in uplifting architecture practice in all aspects including resiliency, security, reduction of complexity and performance, as well as architecture governance for these domains

Enforce Enterprise Architecture Policy expectations
Ensure regulatory and audit expectations and requirements from Architecture & cloud adoption perspective

Ensure an innovative and sustainable enterprise

Create intentional architecture to be nimble aligned with cloud transformation agenda
Manage holistically obsolescence and vulnerability
Lead principle driven management of security, reliability, resiliency, and recoverability

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

Develop and drive technology strategy aligned to both Business and Group’s Tech strategy
Provide architecture direction, guiding principles, guardrails and roadmaps that are aligned to both Business and Group’s Tech strategy
Govern the tech decisions, and architecture directions across portfolio of change
Accelerate the Cloud Value strategy through architecting strong foundational building blocks and reusable Cloud patterns.
Provide directions of Saa S based products where it makes technical and commercial sense to migrate from on-prem products.
Drive Adoption of Information and Cyber Security controls delivered by Cyber Security Services globally across the Consumer, Private and Business Banking (WRB) portfolio.
Strategy to increasing productivity of our cloud architecture & engineering through providing them the right tools, career paths and collaboration capabilities.
Improve developer productivity through creation Infrastructure as Code, Cloud patterns which are engineered well and used by development teams across the bank accelerating speed to market.

Business

Enable business to increase revenue where speed to market is crucial – by modernising, reducing the complexity of the technology landscape and transforming technology assets to fit-for-purpose, flexible and cloud ready platforms that supports business innovations required to enable aggressive acquisition & retention in the targeted segments & markets.
Improve cost efficiency – drive efficiency by identifying opportunities to rationalise to a fewer best of breed platforms which provides strategic business capability and aggressively decommission redundant applications.
Driving and enable cloud adoption and modernisation of technology landscape
Develop architecture blueprint for cloud adoption of the applications for the domain
Identify technology bottlenecks in Cloud & Dev Sec Ops and specify optimization/automation to be implemented.
Collaborate with various Business, Technology and Security Teams.
Govern the architecture decisions, and directions across the bespoke domain
Bring thought leadership in assessing and defining architecture and design solutions for cloud

Skills and Experience

Processes

Develop architecture blueprint for transformation agenda including cloud following Architecture Management standards and processes
Facilitate Architecture governance and approvals
Work with Architecture, Security, Compliance, Cloud and Technology Governance to follow appropriate policies, procedures and controls
Increase cloud adoption efficiency by creating reusable architecture/design artefacts like patterns, implementations, source code, templates.

People & Talent

People leadership responsibility, set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.
Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from the team.
Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development; make sure that the team members are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles, ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
Employ, engage and retain talents with diversity agenda in mind.

Risk Management

Ensure a full understanding of the risk and control environment within the architecture, Cloud & Dev Ops organisation
Ensure onboarding of technologies are done properly with Legal, Compliance and Security Teams
Act quickly and decisively when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and, if necessary, escalated through the relevant committees

Governance

Ensure adherence to, bank-wide technology, cloud, security and architecture standards.
Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
Improve and simplify architecture and cloud governance and decisioning across the strategic Technology Themes

Regulatory & Business Conduct

Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

CIO, WRB
CIO Technology & Architecture
Platform Sub Domain Tech Leads
Enterprise/Domain Architecture Teams, Enterprise Technology Team, Technology Standards Team
Global Head of Platforms Delivery, WRB
Business Domain Heads
Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security and Compliance teams

Our Ideal Candidate

12+ years of experience in Technology, Retail Banking and Wealth Management .
The candidate needs to have experience in large scale core banking transformation, with deep functional and domain expertise
Strong technical background, for example in software or application development, APIs, Integration
Ability to challenge the status quo, think creatively and solve problems to accelerate change
It is essential to articulate problems and solutions with senior stakeholders and executives
Experience in cloud such as AWS and/or Azure is an advantage
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

Role Specific Technical Competencies

Architecture Modelling
Requirements Analysis
Platform Architecture
Software Product Technical Knowledge
Application Design, Architecture
Business Architecture
Data Architecture
Information Security Architecture
IT Architecture
Transitional Architecture
Wealth Management
Retail Banking

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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